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"Yes, they are both fruit, why?" The Bard asks hesitatingly.

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"A strawberry milkshake is not the same as ketchup or tomato soup."

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"Lyssn here, there's nuance to it-"

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The Bard becomes noticeably upset, and grabs his arcane device to formulate his soon to be lengthy, argument...

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"As for people who take pleasure from another type of suffering,
Leather an Lace,
Seeing how long one can stand in freezing water,
Or beating a boss with a broom an no armor,

Well...

All i can say is..

There's as many opinions of Love,
& Suffering,
As Sands on a beach."

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"So, suffering is made into comedy.
To aid in dealing with it, to understand it, to give you taste samples of it.
Like a vaccine.
But aldo to show choices,
What sort of person do you want to be?
Somone who hurts an laugh?
Or understands an protects?
Sadly, making a mockery of pain, is such method."

"So when you speak, thinking yer just being casual.
/They/ think you are annoyed with /Them/.
So they get defencive.
You, not knowing WHY they suddenly are upset,
Get upset back.
And the two of you ping pong anxiety into a fight.

You don't realize it in the moment.

But watching a movie, you do."

"When able to watch a problem detached, you can understand things normaly unseen.
For example, tone of voice.
Ones skull changes the pitch one hears of themselves.
But other people, hear a sharper voice.
You also know why you are annoyed,
Its because of backpain.
But /they/ dont."

"One can't handle the thoughts themselves, so they borrow the will of a proxy.
A character that suffers for them.
To make the concept eaiser to digest.
Its needed for many types of problems,
Cuz, as the Yoin would say,
'While you are in the dark forest, you cannot see the spider, but the bird can.'"

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The Bard winces at the thought of Wasabi tea...
"Ah, yes.. an then theres where suffering is a type of pleasure.
Much like the Phei, everyone indulges in it for one reason or another.
Some do it because its easier to meditate on truama when its externalized.
Like a webcomic, or tv show."

"Without suffering, nothing new is discoverd.
Clothes became fashion, first because one sufferd the weather.
Until it was perfected to allow for the joy of artistic expression.
To Phei, to hide, sheltor or otherwise pretend away suffering, is to deny oneself an others to learn an live a true life."

"Because, to the Phei, a life in which you have never sufferd, in any way.
Is utterly an totalty, horrifying.
It would be like meeting somone whos never drunk water.
They would be so overwhelmed by confusion on how you managed to 'avoid' it,
But how you managed to survive without it."

"In essence, pleasure, joy, even love.
Only gets a type of meaning or sensation, because of sufferings existance as a concept of reality.

To not see your spouse for a long time due to work or war,
Only to embrace once again.

To eat a steak or icecream after a long fast, etc."

"To translate in a metaphor you may understand better..
'A Fox walks the long hot desert, until he finds a spring fed chilled oasis.
But this oasis is one he started at, an cared little for.
It was only after a long journey without, does he find extacy in swimming the waters.'"

"And one of my fav expressions, 'Somtimes a Lizard bathed in sunlight, is like a fish, all splash an smiles.'"

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"Yea, well, Fennecs eat a lot of lizards, a lot of their metaphors are food based.
Anyway.
The reason i like it because its why they believe Suffering is the Echo to Life."

"An example would be like, you go to the doctor for a toothache,
And discover you almost had unremovible cancer of the neck.
A problem led one to discover somone that was unseen and unknown.
So Phei treat suffering in that situation, as an omen or hint, to somthing in need to resolve."

"So in essence, you can let a situation destroy you, or find a use in it.
Much like the Vidar with Taoue.
But there is more to it beyond that too.
"Somtimes the Lizard will only seek shelter from the Eagle,
If the stone burns his navel...'
Believing suffering leads one to unknown safety."

"For example.. 'To suffer, is like a lizard on a hot rock. He either accepts his death or rolls over.'
A story, when dug into, is about how a lizard will somtimes cook itself to death staying on a hot rock, stomach fried to it..
Or, it can roll over, an warm his back as his stomach cools."

"They believed Suffering, is the echo behind lifes heartbeat.
They had no ritual, or much writing on the subject.
Not because they feared or disliked the subject,
But because their way of life kinda just... worked with it?
That not much is said on it by them beyond metaphors."

"An then there are those like Phei..
A deceptively chipper race.
Think Fennecs an Hummingbirds had a child, an it would get distracted by the lights on the wall refracted from their own feathers.
An then make you cupcakes an braid your hair if you got their attention."

"They still war over who is right..
A strange irony when looked at by its own rules..
A universe trapt in a dream or nightmare,
Devided on how best to wake itself up,
To stop the negative exploration it first had..
Tho there is often debate on where that initial intrusive thought first came from.."

"T'hu is oft split in two.
One half beleive Kharma is resolved by understanding, love, care, meditation.
To wash pain with water.
The other half, believe the only way to resolve Kharma, is to overwhelm.
To so horribly break the system.
A grand nightmare to startle God, so he thinks ill no more."

"And it would continue to explore such thoughts, until it resolved all Kharma.
Only when it ran out of things to indulge in suffering thought,
Much like how one might think to hard on the Gore of slapstick comedy,
That you just..
Snap out of it, an stop.
An go back to pleasent thoughts."

"'What if i had no one?' Or 'What if they lost me?'
How would one cope?
How would one survive?
Would one heal the family?
Or rebel, leave, an create their own?
For every example i could cite,
T'hu belived the Greater Universe also wonderd, of itself.
An so, vessels were made to explore it."

"As above so below, T'hu belived the greater universe also has such thoughts.
Such dark what ifs.
'Torture porn' some may even call it.
And since thought becomes reality, such thoughts become family lives.
Narcistic parents, abusive drunk relatives, neglectful teachers, what have you."

"T'hu believe suffering is the universe exploring a story of negative thought.
Much like how one may lay in bed an imagin a terrible fight, and you in this theater of mind say somthing quippy, die, and now everyone is at your funeral having to deal with feelings of loss an things they never knew."

"So Vidar, followed a philosophy, much like these Denizens.
Where, you need to work as a waiter or janitor for a year, to better understand the world.
A type of suffering needed for a betterment to be understood, appreciated, and born.
Then theres those like T'hu, who are akin to Kharma."

"He could swap even bad health,
A sect of doctors, would request he give them singular illness, like blindness.
They would then, using themselves as a paitent, figure out ways to cure it.
Resulting in the tradition of taking on an ailment for a year, as time went on."

"Many medical Denizens took his notes, and improved the quality of life of others.
Even gained knowledge on prevention.
Causeing less need for him to take on such large numbers of pain.
It eventualy sparked the Sect of Taoue, named after him.
Who saw a particular wisdom for sciences."

"As he took on each pain, from a child who knew nothing of the world or how to cope.
Amongst adults who hadno idea what to say, or give, to truely help..
He would experiment with the world, with his suffering.
As he regained mobility, he would write down all things he discoverd that helped him."

"But hed also say... for Wisdom.

It is all to easy, to 'help' somone who suffers, be it from hunger, blindness, or headachs.
But if you have never known such pain yourself, how do you know what truely helps?
How does one know what helps a barefoot blind man navigate a room of broken glass?"

"When he recoverd enough to speak, they would ask him, 'Why?'
Somtimes, hed say Love.
For he had children too, an saw them suffer, an wished them never to be.
Other times, hate.
For times Denizens died because no one /could/ cure them.
A hate for illness itself, weaponizing his body in defiance."

"The Denizens were both greatful for him helping their children,
They would feed him, clean him, care for him.
While he writhed an sobd an screamed.
Even in such pain, he would reach out an heal children who visited him.
His only solace were times he blacked out from it all."